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The study: Processing debris from destroyed and damaged buildings in Gaza: carbon emissions, time frames, and implications for rebuilding

Social media posts by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones received 408 million views – more than emergency services and mainstream media combined.

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The shift to sustainable aviation fuel is still minuscule, while growth in passenger air travel is drowning out any climate gains so far. For example, despite IAG’s world-leading status, cleaner fuel accounted for only about 1.9% of its overall fuel consumption last year, and its emissions from fuel combustion still rose by 5%.

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The [peer-reviewed] report, published Tuesday by the nonprofit Conservation International in the journal Nature Communications Earth and Environment, sheds light on how a historically overlooked population has served as one of Earth’s most effective guardians for centuries.

As oil and gas giants profit, they push the blame onto us. It’s time to take our power back.

We don’t need more guilt. We need more power. We need bold, collective action, not individual blame.

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China needs to cut steel output from the coal-powered blast furnace process by more than 90 million metric tons from 2024's level to achieve its green steel target this year, researchers said in a report published on Tuesday.

The global steel industry is responsible for around 8% of the world's carbon dioxide emissions and China accounts for more than half of global steel output.

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China has lagged far behind its global peers in terms of electric arc-furnace steel share. The average share is around 30% globally, 71.8% in the United States, 58.8% in India and 26.2% in Japan, [a report by the Helsinki-based Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air] said.

From 2021 to the first half of 2025, China's blast furnace capacity utilisation rose from 85.6% to 88.6%, while electric-arc furnace utilisation fell from 58.9% to 48.6%, it added.

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"A credible strategy to curb emission-intensive production and rein in excess capacity would not only tackle the sector's structural issues but also ease global tensions," said Belinda Schaepe, an analyst at the Helsinki-based centre.

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Preliminary data from a NASA-funded Greenland survey point to a two-degree centigrade rise in regional ocean water temperatures in less than a decade.

For the first time ever, a team of researchers took the data from a subglacial Greenland channel in February of this year using a custom-built, remotely operated vehicle equipped with sonar, laser-ranging and a mass spectrometer.

Preliminarily, what we've been able to show is, at least during this year, ocean water in this region is almost two degrees warmer than it was less than 10 years ago, Britney Schmidt, a Cornell University astrobiologist and the ongoing Icefin project’s principal investigator, tells me in Reykjavik. It's crazy amounts of warming; we're losing this ice very rapidly and it’s much warmer than I would have expected; two degrees in 10 years is insane, she says.

“Best-case-scenario estimates — absolute best-case — are that these cloud-seeding operations are able to augment the amount of precipitation by at most 10% to 15% over very limited areas,” Swain said. “On average, it’s a lot lower than that. In fact, in some cases, it’s difficult to prove that cloud seeding does anything at all.”

Indeed, Andrew Dessler, a professor of atmospheric sciences at Texas A&M University, has gone so far as to call cloud seeding a scam — in part because it can prey on farmers and other people who are desperate for rain, and because it typically delivers only modest results, he said.

“There’s no physical way that cloud seeding could have made the Texas storm,” Dessler said, noting that the storm was fueled by extremely high levels of atmospheric water that stemmed from a tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico. “This is a nonsense argument. There’s no debate here about whether cloud seeding played a role in this

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By the end of the century, warming of up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit is possible across the Great Lakes region under heavy use of fossil fuels.

No mention of using the CO2 to push out more oil, which is a likely reason for wanting to put it in this location.

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